Viridis Graduate Institute

International School of Ecopsychology

Creating a more conscious world through education and action.

What is Ecopsychology?

An interdisciplinary field of inquiry bridging the sciences and humanities and predicated on the evidence that humanity’s well-being is integrated into the health and sustainability of all of nature.

VGI’s interdisciplinary programs in ecopsychology and sustainability create a new framework for global citizenship and for being residents on the planet.

VGI focuses on preparing students to enter the global community and implement ecopsychological means to solve complex problems. Our online graduate studies are augmented by in-person sessions that meet in environmental habitats.

Degree programs include a Masters and Doctorate degree.

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VGI is awarded grant by Fetzer Institute.

Master’s program begins September 4.

Executive Certificate September 4.

Next 5-week Introduction to Ecopsychology: October 1-31 Open Enrollment. 15 CEU’s.

Viridis, Latin for “green, to sprout” or the notion of “green life,” promises to be one of the most important and visionary movements in this day of profound change. If you are a conscious, awake and participatory citizen today, you must be engaged in the preservation of our planet and its beautiful natural world. Viridis Graduate Institute stands out as an educational organization that appreciates both the ecological and the psychological dimensions involved in this effort. –Thomas Moore, Author, “Care of the Soul”.

Viridis Graduate Institute’s ecopsychology program participates in the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) under the auspices of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to promote awareness and activities pertaining to education for sustainability.

VGI endorses the Earth Charter. We embrace the spirit and aims of the document. We pledge to join the global partnership for a just, sustainable, and peaceful world and to work for the realization of the values and principles of the Earth Charter.

Viridis Graduate Institute, a nonprofit school, admits students of any race, color, national origin, and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other school-administered program.

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20-year-old Boyan Slat will deploy the world's first Ocean Plastic Cleanup Array in waters between Japan and South Korea next year.

Just as a sailboat under full sail leaves only clean ripples in it's wake, we also leave our own wake as humans.

What do you leave in your wake?

Let's make sure our own wake is clean as we move forward... and let's show others how we can help change the wake we are leaving as humans (full of plastic trash).

In honor of Memorial Day weekend, we would like to give back to the community here in Dania,FL. We chose this area because of it's beautiful water, and it's amazing coral reef. The reefs are the nursuries of the sea, and it's up to us to help protect them. The Sea is on our watch now, it is our responsibility to make sure we are proud of what we hand to future generations.

We are going to be hosting a garbage clean up at the Dania cutoff waterway off US1 and Old Griffin (exact address and instructions to come). The area has a lot of debris along the water way and we would like to see it cleaned up before it makes it back into the ocean.

We will be teaming up with Expedition Chequesta, local sailors with similar goals of leaving a clean wake. Please join our cause for this holiday weekend by volunteering with us, finding additional volunteers, or if unable to attend, donating to our cause with supplies like water, bags, gloves, food, or money.